teenageness

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English

Etymology

From teenage +‎ -ness.

Noun

teenageness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being or being like a teenager.
    • 2002, Franz Metcalf, Buddha in Your Backpack: Everyday Buddhism for Teens, page xii:
      Your teen experience is so central to what Zen Buddhists call “this great matter of birth and death,” that to be fully awake to your teenageness is to be a genuinely spiritual person.
    • 2015, James Colson, Kassie Saga: Teenage Diplomat:
      I almost feel sorry for them but then I realize that their response to her teenageness is helping shape her for the future.
    • 2017, Stefan Merrill Block, Oliver Loving, →ISBN, page 321:
      Mr. Avalon must have been near fifty now, but still some kind of feckless teenageness clung to him, in his lank, shining hair, his unbuttoned black shirts, the school-boyish way he'd kick back at his teaching desk, sneakers crossed on the tabletop.
    • 2019, Sam George-Allen, Witches, page 14:
      I wish I hadn't resisted the magnetic pull of teenageness into that roiling heart of communal feeling.